Bhagavad Gita Verses Covered at the Asheville Kriya Yoga Gathering on 10-4

Chapter 2 Commentary on the Bhagavad Gita with Ryan Kurczak.

31. Knowing now the duty before you, do not hesitate; indeed, there is no higher good for a warrior spirit than righteous endeavor performed as duty.
32. Happy are such devotees to whom such a fortunate endeavor is presented as an open entrance to spiritual fulfillment.
37. If you are slain, you shall attain spiritual fulfillment; if you are victorious, you will enjoy life in the world. Therefore stand up, resolved to do your duty.

38. Considering pleasure and displeasure, gain and loss, victory and defeat, with even-mindedness, engage in righteous endeavor. Thus shall you not incur misfortune. 39. With this Yoga of knowledge you shall rid your self of the bondage of karma. 40. Even a little of this practice protects one from great dangers.


41. On this path, those who are firmly decided are resolute; the thoughts of the uncommitted branch out in many directions and in endless variations.
42. The undiscerning people who rejoice in the letter of the scriptures , who contend that there is nothing else,
whose nature is driven by desire and who are intent upon heaven (somewhere other than here), proclaim flowery words that result in birth as the fruit of actions.
43. They prescribe various rituals for the attainment enjoyment and power.
44. Of those whose minds are enchanted by these words because of their craving for enjoyment and power; intellectual ability is flawed and meditative insight is not possible.

47. You have the right to actions only, not to the results of actions. Let not the results of actions be your motive, neither let there be any attachment to inaction.
48. Firmly established in Self-realization, do the work at hand; giving up attachment to it, be even minded in both success and failure, for, truly, mental poise is yoga.
49. Those who work for results alone are to be pitied.
50. One who has realized the true Self abandons both the good and the ungood. Therefore, aspire to the yoga of Self-knowledge. Skillful action is yoga.
51. The wise who have actualized enlightenment, who have renounced the results of actions and are free from compulsion to be reborn, are beyond sorrow because established in soul-bliss.

53. When your intelligence, which was bewildered by conflicting [philosophical or scriptural] information, is stable and unshaken in realization of oneness [samadhi], then shall you awaken to flawless, insightful knowledge.

54. What is the description of one firmly established in Self-knowledge?
55. When one has put away the desires of the mind, and is content in Self-knowledge, such a one is said to be established in wisdom.
56. One whose mind is untroubled in the midst of misfortune and is free from craving in the midst of pleasurable circumstances, from whom passion, fear, and anger have departed, and whose meditative concentration is steady, is said to be a Sage, to be wise.
57. That one who is without sentimental attachment, who does not rejoice because of pleasant circumstances or feel aversion toward that which is unpleasant, is firmly established in understanding.
58. One who withdraws sensory awareness from temptations as a turtle withdraws its limbs, is firmly established in wisdom.
59. The objects of the senses turn away from one who abstains from them but the taste remains. Even this turns away when the supreme reality is apprehended.